Apple executives decided to share more information for the iPhone used by the San Bernardino terrorist. As you know, the US Department of Justice (initiated by the FBI) charged the company because it refused to comply with a court order requiring the device to be unlocked in order to maintain good public relations.
According to a Buzzfeed publication, company representatives have revealed that the FBI had already attempted to break the iPhone 5C used by one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino attacks. The result of these attempts was to lock the device completely.
The company's executives say the FBI had changed the password to less than 24 hours since the police found the iPhone, although it is not yet clear why the federations changed the code.
But according to Apple, the company's technicians planned to recover the data from the iPhone using "four different ways", including one that involves connecting the phone to a known Wi-Fi network.
But when they tried to use this method, Apple's technicians could not connect because the iPhone was already blocked after the Apple ID password had changed.
This of course happened after the intervention of the federal and that is why the FBI is asking the company for a backdoor.
So the only way to unlock the iPhone is to create a backdoor, something Apple claims it never implied was impossible to do. But according to the company, creating a backdoor could compromise it privacy of all iPhone users around the world.
“The government says this tool will only be used once, on one phone. But this is not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. In the physical world, this would be the equivalent of a key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks – from restaurants and banks μέχρι καταστήματα και σπίτια. Κανένας λογικός άνθρωπος θα βρει αυτή την ιδέα αποδεκτή' αναφέρει ο CEO της Apple Tim Cook, in a statement released earlier this week.
